NEWS photo Julie tverson

..--Robia

Movie store robbed again

A man armed with a
knife held up the Dial
Movie store on
Doliarton Highway on
Monday.

The man selected a video
and then “forced” a knife at the
cashier during the 12:30 p.m.
incident, according to the
North Vancouver RCMP.

The cashier was forced into
aback room.

The robber got away with
$250.

He is described as being
Caucasian, age 35 to 40,
1.75m (5’9"), slim build, clean
shaven’ with yellow-stained

teeth. He wore large framed
black sunglass

Dial-a-Movie was one of
the cight video stores and
motels that lost money to the
gasoline robber. The gasoline
tobber held up Dial-a-Movie
on April 6.

The = gasoline robber
splashed employees or counter-
tops with gas and th. *atened to
light fires during the heisis.

The gasoline robber is still
ar large. He has been consis-
tently described as being in his
late 30s or carly 40s. The gaso-»
line robber usually wears largé
dark glasses.

—Anna Marie D’Angelo

Passat

Last vear News of the Weird
reported oon oa Missouri
woman's begging a judge aot
to imprison the man who had
shot her in the head (and thus
sent her into a coma and killed
her fetus) because she never-
theless loved him and had since
married him (and produced a
replacement child). In San
Francisco in January 1999,

thony Tyrone Davis, 42, was

ceniced to 35 years in prison
for smashing a woman with a
hammer, so severely that he feft
a skull indentation in the shape
of che head of the hammer. Th
victim subsequently married
Davis and refused to twsti
against him, but he was con-
victed on a doctor's testimony
and the 911 tape of the inci-
dent.

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A 54-year-old: woman was
run over and killed in February
by an Amtrak train in San Jose,
Calif; she was walking on the
tracks wearing, headphones lis-
tening to the radio. -And an
unidentified middle-aged man
was killed in Nairobi, Kenya, in
March when he accidentally ran
in front of a bus while escaping
trom the All Saints Cathedral
where he had just stolen the
contents of collection plates

rar-old man was

killed in a ‘fisttight i in Las Vegas
in February; he had just chal
lenged a 69-year-old man over
who was tougher.

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In November in Lake St. Croix
Beach, Minn., firefighters
assisted a 13-year-old boy who
had gotten his lip stuck in an
eggbeater. And in Taipei,
Taiwan, in February, doctors
removed a chopstick from the

¢ socket of Japanese tourist
Satoshi Kinoshida; it had pene-
trated more than an inch. And
in December, firefighters in
Gosport, England, were called
to a home to extricate teacher
John Gueran, 42, who had
become stuck headfirst with,
according to London's Daily
‘Telegraph, his “backside in the

” behind a pantry trying to
retrieve his son’s Christmas

sift...
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In 1997, News of the Weird
reported that a man on tial for
attempted murder in
Newmarket, Ontario, was

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released when the foreman
cleared his throat betore utter
ing the word “guilty,” cau
the judge to interpret the ver-
dict as i

defendant: turned him

three days later.) In April 1999,
Alan Rashid) was sentenced to
two years ia prison in Carditt,
Wales, when the jury foreman
coughed during the “not” peor-
tion of “not guil

Friday, May 14, 1999 ~ Naith Shore News ~ 11

ve the guy to death

the judge ta belie s the verdict
was “guile.” (A few minutes
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released.)
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Romero, 38, filed a lawsuit
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ts. + M.,

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inm Guadalupe Mendova
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